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runlets

runlets is the plural of runlet.

Meaning of runlet

Noun (1)

runlet (plural runlets)

  1. A small brook or stream.
    • The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 255

Noun (2)

runlet (plural runlets)

  1. (archaic) A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons.
    • […]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages...

Questions about runlets

What is runlets the plural of?
Runlets is the plural of runlet.

Words near runlets in the dictionary

  1. runlength
  2. runlengths
  3. runless
  4. runlessness
  5. runlet
  6. runlets
  7. runlevel
  8. runlevels
  9. runman
  10. runmen
  11. runn

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